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How to get away with breaking the rules like Boris Johnson

A handy guide to wriggling out of accountability like the prime minister fending off a report by Sue Gray

How to get away with breaking the rules like Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson walks down Downing Street after the publication of Sue Gray's partygate report | PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
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After more than five months of waiting, Sue Gray’s ‘partygate’ report has been published. And the 60-page document (three of whose pages are, admittedly, blank) doesn’t pull its punches.

But throughout partygate, the prime minister has seemed quietly confident he can survive this. That may be because he has form in avoiding the consequences of his actions.

If you, too, are considering breaching a series of regulations that you personally set, this handy guide shows how you can weather the resultant political storm.